Developing database changes is just the beginning. Once the code has been committed to source control, moving code between environments can be cumbersome in a manual environment. When multiple changes over time are involved in a release, tracking the proper set of changes is critical. Otherwise, the quality assurance team may test incompatible builds, leading to wasted time and potentially allowing unsupported changes to be deployed together.

This session will introduce database developers and administrators to GitHub code repositories and GitHub Actions to define a build and deployment workflow for an Azure SQL database. Several workflow portions will be explained more in-depth, highlighting different tasks written in YAML.